“It is time for us to have our seat at the table. As women, as workers, as black and brown people, as communities of color. We are no longer content to have you make the decisions for us.”

“I have another message for my beloved Democratic Party: Hear me now. You cannot show up in churches before Election Day, you cannot sing the first and last verse of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ you cannot join hands and walk across the Edmond Pettus Bridge and call that ‘post-racial’ and ‘inclusion’,” – Donna Edwards.